Virginia Woolf

Thinking is my fighting.

Virginia Woolf

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf

Thoughts are divine.

Virginia Woolf

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Virginia Woolf

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Virginia Woolf

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

Virginia Woolf

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

Virginia Woolf

War is not women’s history.

Virginia Woolf

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

Virginia Woolf

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf